ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-1109
Education
Ph.D., Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland (2017 – 2021)
- Thesis: More Human: An Ethnographic Study of Methamphetamine Recovery
(Passed without corrections and recommended for Dean’s Award)
Thesis Advisors: A/Prof Lisa Fitzgerald, Prof Linda Selvey, Prof Lisa Maher
M.A., International Public Health, University of Queensland (2013 – 2016)
- Dissertation: Qualitative Analysis of Homelessness & Natural Disasters: Expanding the role of NGOs across the Adaptive Resilience Cycle
Thesis Advisor: Dr Lisa Fitzgerald
Graduate Certificate, Emergency Nursing, Queensland University of Technology (2015)
B.A, Nursing (with distinction), Queensland University of Technology (2012)
B.A, Behavioural Science (with distinction), Queensland University of Technology (2012)
Research / Academic Experience
Senior Principal Social Scientist NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, The University of Queensland (2023 – present)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow The University of Queensland, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health (2022)
Senior Research Technician University of Queensland (2016-2017)
Faculty Member College of Emergency Nursing Australasia Trauma Nursing Program (2017-present)
University Tutor University of Queensland, Faculty of Medicine (2017-2018, 2020)
- Subjects: Indigenous Health; Health, Society & Research; Research Methods
Clinical Experience
Registered Nurse / Clinical Nurse Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital Emergency & Trauma Centre (2013-present)
Emergency Nurse Specialist International Committee of the Red Cross (2021-present)
Deployment history: Six months, Akobo, South Sudan
Registered Nurse Street to Home – Outreach Team, Micah Projects (2022-2023)
Clinical Nurse Retrieval Services Queensland (2019-2021)
Clinical Nurse / Clinical Simulation Facilitator South-West Queensland Hospital & Health Service (2016-2017)
- Project Director – Charleville Hospital Emergency & Simulation Training Course
Clinical Nurse Thursday Island Emergency Department (2017)
Adventure Medic Our Spirit Adventures, Papua New Guinea (2016)
Adventure Medic/Trek Leader Executive Excellence (2014-2016)
Registered Nurse Moonyah Drug & Alcohol Recovery Centre (2013-2016)
Registered Nurse Cancer Council Queensland Helpline (2013-2015)
Additional Training
EMERGO Disaster Training (2021)
Clinical Rural Skills Enhancement workshop (CRuSE) (2016)
Major Incident Medical Management Support (MIMMS) – Advanced Commander (2016)
Pre-hospital Trauma & Life Support Course (PHTLS) (2015)
Major Incident Medical Management Support Hospital course (HMIMMS) (2015)
Emergency Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) (2015)
Grants
Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (2017)
The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Foundation Top-up Scholarship (2018)
The Drug and Alcohol Nurses Australia conference travel scholarship (2019)
Three Minute Thesis People’s Choice Research Funding Award (2021)
Prizes
PHAA-QLD HDR Excellence Prize – Runner-up Highly Commended (2020)
UQ Faculty of Medicine Three Minute Thesis – Winner (2021)
University of Queensland Three Minute Thesis Final – People’s Choice (2021)
Selected Conferences
Australia Professional Society on Alcohol and Other Drugs (2023)
- Transparent Toilet Blocks & Vaping Quokkas: Frame and content analysis of how the Australian media has reported on youth vaping (2018-2023).
The Australian Sociological Society, Melbourne (2022)
- “Everybody is broken”: Exploring agency within harmful methamphetamine use and challenging the distinction between volition and compulsion
19th International Conference for Emergency Nurses, Gold Coast (2022)
- “I’m still in there”: Using ethnography to understand how emergency nurses can reduce stigma and increase safety with people using methamphetamine
Australian Anthropological Society Conference, Canberra (2019)
- ‘I can’t say there’s nothing good about it’: calling for value pluralism in understandings of people who use drugs
Contemporary Drug Problems Conference, Prato, Italy (2019)
- Dangerous Territory: A critical ethnography of methamphetamine recovery
Drug and Alcohol Nurses Australasian Conference, Sydney (2019)
- Dangerous Territory: A nurse led ethnography of methamphetamine users accessing recovery services in Queensland
Australian and New Zealand Addiction Conference, Gold Coast (2019)
- Dangerous Territory: An ethnographic study of methamphetamine recovery
15th World Congress on Public Health, Melbourne (2017)
- Qualitative Analysis of Homelessness and Natural Disasters: Expanding the Role of NGOs with an All-People Plan
15th International Conference for Emergency Nurses, Sydney (2017)
- Critical Care in the Middle of Nowhere – delivering evidence-based resuscitation in rural Queensland by designing an innovative simulation course.
13th International Conference for Emergency Nurses, Brisbane (2015)
- Impact of an immersive, brief session education curriculum on emergency nurses’ knowledge & self-efficacy.
Selected Seminar Papers
Monash University guest lecture – Master of Addictive Behaviours – Sociocultural Perspectives on Addiction (2024)
- Using Critical Ethnography & Posthumanism, to Develop a model of ”Extended Recovery”
QUT Guest Lecture – Critical Policy Analysis subject (2022)
- “More Human”: Using Ethnographic Insights to Rethink the Axle for Methamphetamine Recovery.
Insight (Queensland Health centre for alcohol and other drug training and workforce development) & Australian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs (APSAD) (2022).
- “More Human”: An ethnographic exploration of how people experience methamphetamine use and recovery. Seminar presented to
Queensland Injectors Health Network (QuIHN) (2022)
- “Every time we relapse, I learn more”: Using ethnographic research to understand the ways people find of ‘living with’ harmful methamphetamine use.
UQ School of Public Health Seminar Series (2022)
- “A Bit More Human”: Using ethnography to illustrate a posthumanist model of ’Extended Recovery’ for harmful drug use. Seminar presented as part of
UQ School of Public Health – Qualitative Methods masters level guest lecture (2022)
- ‘The Professional Stranger’: Combining ethnographic observation & qualitative interviewing for public health.
Micah Projects – Community of Practice (2022)
- ‘I’m always trying’: Pathways through harmful methamphetamine use and recovery.
The Kirby Institute (2022)
- Developing a posthumanist model of ‘Extended Recovery’ for harmful drug use
Victorian Substance Use Research Forum (VSURF) (2022)
- “More human”: Developing a posthuman model of ‘Extended Recovery’ for harmful drug use.
QUT Centre for Justice (2022)
- “More Human”: Using Ethnographic Insights to Reinvent the Axle for Methamphetamine Recovery
Turning Point – Australia’s leading national addiction treatment, training and research centre (2022)
Harm Reduction Victoria (2022)
- ‘Every Time we Relapse, I Learn More’: Using Ethnographic Research to Understand the ways People Find of ‘Living With’ Harmful Methamphetamine Use
University of Queensland Three Minute Thesis – Winner of Faculty of Medicine, People’s Choice for University of Queensland (2021)
University of Queensland Three Minute Thesis – 2nd Place Finalist for Faculty of Medicine (2019)
- Why Aren’t we all on Drugs Right Now? – Asking the right questions about methamphetamine.
UQ School of Public Health Seminar Series (2019)
- Dangerous Territory: A critical ethnography of methamphetamine recovery
Guest Lectures for UQ Masters subjects Public Health Research Methods and Qualitative Research (2019)
- Ethnographic Research Methods. Case Study: Methamphetamine Recovery
Academic Service
- Review Editor: Frontiers in Public Health
- Peer reviewer: Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing; Contemporary Drug Problems; International Journal for Mental Health Nursing; International Journal of Drug Policy; Qualitative Health Research; Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal.
- 3MT Judging Panel – UQ Wildcard Round 2022
Clinical and academic references available upon request.
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